(Video on the TPM site, and on the many other sites that have reported on Colbert, and here.)

More from Colbert:

The proponents of North Carolina’s Amendment One celebrated by eating wedding cakes with bride and groom figurines on top. The sight really choked Colbert up. “I always cry at the prevention of weddings,” he said.

“What I love most about this bill is that by preventing gay people from having the legal right to marry, it not only protects traditional straight marriage, but also helps preserve traditional straight stereotypes of gayness,” he added. “Because I believe gay people should be having hot, sweaty, depraved, anonymous man-piles in the basements of techno clubs, devoid of the slightest emotional connection, just as God intended.”

Entertaining as Colbert’s routine is, my interest here is in the libfix –mageddon ‘disaster’ in gay-mageddon. The libfix has been much reported on, usually in connection with the libfix -pocalypse and related portmanteaus. A sampling:

[…] -mageddon I’ve written about several times on this blog (a summary piece here, then additions here, here, and here). Cybermageddon would have been possible, but Cybergeddon alternates accented and […]